Mark 9:9 Commentary and Bible Study

As they come down from the mountain, there is something on their minds. ‘He charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead’, and they obeyed that instruction. Unlike some of those who were healed and told not to publish it, the disciples kept this command. They trusted him enough to know that he commanded this for a good reason. However, they again questioned what the rising from the dead meant. They could not assimilate this information, because it did not fit anywhere in their imagined scheme of what the Lord was going to do. Christ had only just before said the same thing to them: that he would suffer many things and be killed, and after three days he would rise again, and Peter had responded foolishly to this and received a very firm rebuke. They were aware that they were slow to understand, and found aspects of his teaching difficult to grasp, but they were convinced of the truth of his word, and so they preferred to discuss this among themselves rather than ask him openly. But they had a bigger question which again they were afraid to ask him about.